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F. T. KNAUSS.

TABLE. 110.257.3425, Patented MayZ,18 82.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK T. KNAUSS, OF SGRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,343, dated May 2, 1882. Application filed November 28, 1881. I (Modem To all .whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK T. KNAUSS, of Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tables, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip' tion. 7

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the corner-picce and upper part of theleg in section on the line w :v of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a front elevation of the back plate having the lug.

A represents the corner-piece, to the edges .of which the rails B B of the table are attached by the bolts or screws a a and 0 rep resents the leg of the table, which is secured to the corner-piece by the bolt 1), which passes through the corner-piece and the leg and receives the thumb-nut 0 upon its inner end, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The leg 0 is preferably formed with the slot at at its upper end, so that it may be slipped upon the bolt without removing the bolt or entirely removing the nut from the end of the bolt. When this construction of legs is used the corner-piece will be cast with the lug f, (shown clearly in Fig. 3,) which enters the slot when the leg is in will be readily seen.

place, and holds it firm and steady, and also prevents the parts of the leg from warping or shrinking and closing tightly upon the bolt, and with this construction of leg the back plate, E, (shown in Fig.4,) will be used. This plate is formed with the lug g at its upper end, which fits in the slot of the leg, and with the hole h, through which the bolt passes, so that the nutof the bolt, when screwed up, will come against it as against a washer. This back plate is concaved, as shown in Fig. 2, to form a good joint when the plateis screwed against the leg.

By this construction the legs of the table may be renewed without detaching any other parts of the table but the legs, and they can be quickly and easily removed by simply loosening the screw to permit the leg to slip out; and they can be as quickly and easily replaced, as Besides, the legs, when in place,are firm, making the table steady and strong.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent-- A table-leg having slot, a corner-piece having a lug fitting said slot, and a back plate having a log also fitting said slot, in combination with a boltand nut, as and for the pur pose specified.

FRANK T. KNAUSS.

Witnesses:

R. HENWOOD, H. A. KAUFHOLD. 

